Method of painting and decorating



March 29, 1955 c. J. ERNST 2,704,905

METHOD OF PAINTING AND DECORATING Filed Feb. 18, 1952 jt forn 6'7 United States Patent METHOD or PAINTING AND DECORATING Carl J. Ernst, Milwaukee, Wis., assignor to Bro-Kalle Wall Finish Co. Inc., Milwaukee, Wis., a corporation of Wisconsin Application February 18, 1952, Serial No. 272,192

Claims. (Cl. 41-26) This invention relates to a new and improved method of painting and decorating and to a pigment preparation for use therewith.

Heretofore when it was desired to superimpose a design such as a floral design on a painted wall, or the like, it was necessary in order to obtain the design either to paint each design individually or to apply a stencil and either paint or spray through the stencil with ordinary paint. Since the design usually involves several colors the stencil method necessitated putting on one color and waiting until that color was dry before applying the next color. Thus it was necessary to place the stencil over the design and remove the stencil several times before the design was completed. This process was both costly and slow, resulted in many smears due to paint running under the stencil and did not give a realistic design.

it is an object of the present invention to provide a method of painting and decorating which will permit the application of multi-colored designs on a wall, or the lllie, in a minimum period of time.

Another object is to provide a method of painting and decorating which will produce a more natural appearing multi-colored design on a painted surface.

Another object is to provide a method of painting and decorating which will enable multi-colored patterns to be applied economically to walls, or the like.

A rurther object of the invention is to provide a method of painting and decorating which will simplify the application of multi-colored designs to painted walls, or the lik A further object is to provide a pigment cake or paste suitable for use in decorating multi-colored walls.

A still further object is to provide a pigment cake or paste which will not dry out readily.

A still further object is to provide a pigment cake or paste for use in decorating multi-colored walls which will not form a film on the Wall.

A still further object is to provide a pigment cake or paste, for use in decorating multi-colored walls, which will not crumble in use.

A still further object is to provide a pigment bearing paste or cake which will impregnate a semi-dry flat paint to superimpose thereon the color of the pigment.

Still further objects will become apparent upon considering the following specification which when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings illustrates a preferred form of the invention.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is a section of a decorated wall showing a stenoil in place thereon;

Fig. 2 is a partial stencil for use in conjunction with the stencil shown in Fig. l; and

Fig. 3 is a partial stencil used in connection with the stencils shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In practicing the present invention a plurality of pastes are prepared in various colors or shades. The pastes comprise the following ingredients in substantially the proportions given.

Color pigment, such as chrome green, chemical red,

brown iron oxide, chrome yellow, cobalt blue, etc.:

Patented Mar. 29, 1955 in the formula given above, any pigment may be used in place of those given, or percentages of those given may be mixed together to form different colors.

'lhe beeswax referred to specifically is No. 3 commercial grade beeswax and contains 45 7o beeswax and 55% paramn wax. if desired the percentage of param'n wax may be increased, the increase being compensated for by a change in the amount of aluminum stearate used.

lne aluminum stearate (powdered) is a greasy substance used in the formula to slow the drying process and to prevent skinning over of the pigment when applied to a wall.

The diatomaceous silica is merely a neutral filling agent to give the desired consistency to the resulting cake and may be replaced with any suitable filler sucn as other clays or silicas (e. g. giloers whiting). The amount of filler to be added is approximately 1 part, out the exact amount is governed by the amount required to give the desired consistency.

The oil used (aliphatic hydrocarbon) may be any slow drying kerosene or that group.

l'he paste is formed by melting the wax and mixing the melted wax with kerosene. the color pigment. and aluminum stearate are then blended into the mixture of wax and kerosene and thoroughly mixed. To this mixture is added sufficient diatomaceous silica, or other tiller, to cause the mixture to solidity into a semi-hard waxy cake when cooled. The mixture is packed in containers.

and allowed to cool naturally.

ln its simplest form the invention contemplates painting a wall, or the like, with the desired color or mat on paint in the usual manner and allowing the paint to dry until it loses its initial tackiness and reels dry to the touch. When the paint is in this semi-dry condition a stencil is applied to the wall. 'lhe stencil may have any desired design or any desired portion of a design, such as leaves, stems, fiowers, etc., cut therethrougn. A dry brush is rubbed in the coloring matter described above and is then brushed across the desired apertures in the stencil to impregnate the color into the semi-dry paint on the wall surtace to give it a supplemental color superimposed on the color of the painted wall. Other colors similarly may be brushed into the painted surrace or the wall through apertures in the stencil to complete a multicolored design on the wall.

The design thus induced may be varied in shades by the use of more or less paint on the brush as well as by varying the intensity of the brushing. In this manner it is possible to obtain floral designs as well as other designs which closely resemble individually hand painted work.

In order to obtain more satisfactory and more beautiful results and to do the work more rapidly it is desirable to use a paint which is adapted to be polished by the application of friction alone. Such a paint is disclosed in the U. S. Patent to Otto F. Gargen and Carl J. Ernst, No. 2,125,237, issued July 26, 1935. After this paint has dried to a point where it loses its initial tackiness and feels dry to the touch the stencil may be applied to the wall and the pattern brushed in with a dry brush, which polishes the paint exposed to the brush by the stencil. Color may then be superimposed through the stencil on the polished surface by again brushing through the stencil with a dry brush containing the appropriate colors of the paste described above. The latter brushing step impregnates the supplemental colors into the semi-dry paint surface on the wall and forms a permanent color, which, once the paint has dried thoroughly, may be washed or cleaned readily without smearing the colors.

If desired, stencil patterns may be used with relatively large areas in a supplemental color. Such larger areas may be colored with the paste described above but may be colored more readily by spraying or painting in the usual manner through the stencils with ordinary flat paints, or with the patented paint referred to above. These larger areas which have been painted with ordinary paint, which has dried to a point where it has lost its tackihess and feels dry to the touch, may have a stencil superimposed upon them with selected portions of the stencil cut out to enable the decorator to color the parts of these larger areas by brushing the colors of the paste f anogoos 5 described above into the paint with a drybrush through the holes in the stencil.

An example of such work is shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of itheidrawings. Fig. 1,shows..a wall with one complete ,flower and one partially complete flower with the first stencil used in place on the wall. Todecorate the wall the first stencil 10, shown in Fig. 11, is placed against the wall and the appropriate colors brushed through the holes .Of the stencil to .bring out the leaves and the stems of the design. This design is repeated at regular intervals throughout the area of the wall by using the match marks 12 to place the stencil. accurately for the next design.

After thewallhas been decorated with the leafy design .shown in the stencil 10, a stencil 14, having the outline of a flower is placed in position between the leaves and appropriate color. is sprayed or brushed into the wall through the aperture 15 inv the stencil,

After the paint in the flower has dried until it has lost its initial tackines s andfeels' dry to the touch, a third stencil 17, having the same outline as that of the flower and hayingapertures 18 therethrbugh, is applied over the solid color which was previously brushed or sprayed through the stencil 14 and the desired colors of colored paste described above are brushed throughapertures 18 inithe stencil 17 to complete the flower.

' It will be understood that theihereinbefore described invention is to be taken merely as a preferred embodiment of the same, andthatvarious modifications of the paste, 7

aswell as themeans of applying the paste, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

That which is claimed as new and is desired to be secured by United States Letters Patent is:

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L'The method of painting and decorating a surface which comprises painting the surface with a flat oil paint, allowing the paint to dry until it has lost its tackiness,

applying a stencil to the wall and brushing a color pig mentinto the body of the paint. I F 2. The ffrnethod of painting and decorating a surface "which comprises coating the surface with a flat oil paint 1 adapted to be polished by the application of friction there to, allowing the paint to dry until it loses its initial tackiness, applying a stencil to the partially dry paint and brushing the exposed painted surface through the stencil tofpolish the paint and impose the design of the stencil on the surface, and rubbing a substantially dry pigment into the paint through selected parts of the stencil in stencil.

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and brushing through the stencil to bring out the design on the surface, and coloring parts of the design by brushing into the paint a paste comprising a color pigment embedded in beeswax through selected parts of the stencil.

4. The method of painting and decorating a surface which comprises, coating thesurface with a flat oil paint adapted to be polished by the application of friction thereto, allowing the paint to dry until it loses its initial tackiness, applying a stencil to the partially dry paint and brushing through the stencil to bring out the design on the surface, and coloring parts of the design by brushing into the paint a paste comprising a color pigment embedded in a mixture comprising an oil and a wax through selected parts of the stencil.

5. The method of painting and decorating a surface which comprises, coating'th surface with a flatoil paint adapted to be polished by the applicatiofibf friction thereto, allowing the paint to dry until it loses its initial tackiness', applying a stencil to the partially'dry paint and brushing through the stencil'to'bring' out the design on the surface, and coloring parts of the design by brushing into the paint a paste comprising 33% color and 33% kerosene and wax mixture throughselected parts of the 

